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King John: Treachery, Tyranny & the Road to Magna Carta

By Marc Morris - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

The year 2015 is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, and there has been much renewed interest in King John. A number of new ...Read Review

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

By Charlotte Gordon - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote some of the first proto-feminist tracts in the late 18th century, was an inspiration to her daughter Mary Godwin ...Read Review

The Girl Next Door

By Ruth Rendell - Published 2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Fans of prolific and award-winning author Rendell will not be disappointed by her latest novel. On the outskirts of war-torn London in the 1940...Read Review

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

By Kate Williams - Published 2013 (UK)Published 2014 (US & CAN)

Genres:

Nonfiction

Kate Williams, royal correspondent for CNN, has followed up her 2008 biography of Queen Victoria with a well-researched, heavily detailed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, ...Read Review

The Marriage Game

By Alison Weir - Published 2014Published 2015

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In this new novel, Alison Weir shows why she is the best-selling female historian in the UK, charting Elizabeth’s perilous, intricate passage ...Read Review

The Lie

By Helen Dunmore - Published 2014Published WSP15

Genres:

Literary

Cornwall 1920. Daniel Branwell has survived the Great War as an infantryman; with his mother, his only relation, having died whilst he was serving ...Read Review

The Kept

By James Scott - Published 2014

Genres:

Thriller

James Scott’s debut novel is far from the work of a novice. After earning a fistful of honors for his short fiction ...Read Review

An Officer and a Spy

By Robert Harris - Published 2013Published 2014

Genres:

Thriller

The Dreyfus Affair is an infamous episode in French history sufficiently well known not to need reiteration here. Familiarity with the facts, however, ...Read Review

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

The endpapers of Kate Williams’ new biography of the Empress Josephine are decorated with cartoons in the style of Gilray showing the empress ...Read Review

A Wolf in Hindelheim

By Jenny Mayhew - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Rural Germany, 1926. Set in an isolated small village, this story relates a series of strange events and the human irrationality and unpleasantness it ...Read Review